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Meet the Empire: The Epic Journey of Grand Prince Alexander Nikolaevich in 1837

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City

The Jordan Center’s Colloquium Series serves to introduce the most recent work of scholars within the Slavic field. Participants come from universities across the country and abroad, and work in disciplines ranging from history, political science and anthropology to literature and film. The colloquium discussion is based on a working paper which will be circulated prior to the event. On…

“FREMDE SEELE, DUNKLER WALD:” AN EVENING WITH REINHARD KAISER-MÜHLECKER AND ERIC JAROSINSKI

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading by the author and current writer-in-residence at Deutsches Haus at NYU, Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker, from his recent novel Fremde Seele, Dunkler Wald, followed by a conversation with the acclaimed Germanist, writer and mastermind of @neinquarterly, Eric Jarosinski. About the book: Alexander leaves the small village he grew up in and joins the army. A restless soul, he pays…

Hard Coal, Hard Times: The Social Realist Art of Nicholas Bervinchak

Ukrainian Institute of America 2 East 79th Street, New York

Art at the Institute is pleased to present an exhibition of etchings by American artist of Lemko ancestry, Nicholas Bervinchak (1903-1978). Executed mostly during the Great Depression and into the following decade, these prints document the miners, tools, working conditions, and family life surrounding the isolated anthracite coal mining towns (also known as patches) of northeast Pennsylvania. Please join us…

FILM SCREENING: BARBARA

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City

About nine years before the fall of the Wall: Barbara, a doctor from Berlin, applies for an exit permit from the GDR. She is arrested and transferred to a provincial hospital after her release in the summer of 1980. While her lover prepares for her escape to the West via the Baltic Sea, Barbara works as a paediatric surgeon, under…